netdev - Re: [RFC][BNX2X]: New driver for Broadcom 10Gb Ethernet.

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Date:	Wed, 8 Aug 2007 10:40:54 +0200
From:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	hch@...radead.org, jeff@...zik.org, mchan@...adcom.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, eliezert@...adcom.com,
	lusinsky@...adcom.com, eilong@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][BNX2X]: New driver for Broadcom 10Gb Ethernet.

On Wednesday 08 August 2007 01:08:08 David Miller wrote:
> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
> Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 00:04:59 +0100
> 
> > Please take a look at kernel/irq/handle.c.  The irq handler is
> > always called with the right dev_id argument.  Everything would be a complete
> > nightmare to handle because you usually need to access the device private
> > data to check whether the shared irq is for this device.
> 
> Absolutely.
> 
> I can't believe we're even discussing something so obvious and
> wasting everyone's time.
> 
> 

Ok, then something "so obvious" is explained wrong in all off
the tutorials I read.
So it was _not_ that "obvious" to me. ok?

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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